John Cornyn: “The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune).”

If this were just between me and Todd Blanche, we would have worked this out, but, apparently, he’s getting some pushback from higher-ups at the White House. I don’t know who, but it doesn’t need to be this hard.

The more you cast the validity of the voting system in doubt it discourages more people from participating.

We didn’t have the authority to sort that out.

If it would make a difference in the outcome, I'm fine with that, but it won't make a difference, which I don't believe it will, that it's an act of futility," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital.